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by linmob 5y ago
You can always get a PinePhone and switch those kill switches off ;-) Delivering all the messaging apps on a GNU/Linux device seems like a difficult task though, from what I’ve gathered about apps that others and I tested [0]. [0] htt
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by linmob 5y ago
The GNOME Calls app in the Librem 5 can do SIP calls, and the SMS/MMS app Chatty can do XMPP (OMEMO encryption is cuddly though) and Matrix support is being worked on (as in not enabled by default yet).
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by linmob 5y ago
Based on my recent experience with a Librem 5, this is an accurate figure if anyone has doubts. Not doing much with the phone, just a few (like 4) photos and SMS and some light browsing of Mastodon, I can get up to 12 or 13 hours with WiFi
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by linmob 5y ago
There‘s a script for waking the PinePhone up regularly to mitigate this: https://codeberg.org/Silmathoron/pinephone-autowake
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by linmob 5y ago
> Of course, petrol costs a lot more in Germany than in the US. In practice, that tends to limit driving much more Not really. People that drive a lot or like to save money just buy more fuel efficient cars - whenever I read about fuel e
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by linmob 5y ago
One thing this article fails to mention is that in practice, you can mix and match and have e.g. Plasma Mobile apps on Phosh. Sadly, most distributions don’t do a good job at enabling this by default (as in preinstalling the qt5-wayland pac
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by linmob 5y ago
Let's go back to your original point: That the PinePhone and Librem 5 are mentioned too often, and that (sorry if I get this slightly wrong) people should pay more attention to the Planet Computer Products, and devices supported by the
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by linmob 5y ago
But PinePhone (and likely this is going to apply to the PinePhone Pro, too) is THE development platform for so many mobile Linux projects/distributions. Unless you go the Halium route (Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, Droidian) and use an ag
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by linmob 5y ago
This. The OnePlus 6 is a great choice. The Cosmo.. not so much. The available Debian is just broken at this point and has not been maintained for a while.
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by linmob 5y ago
Sigh. How could they? Have you ever considered economies of scale and that PINE64 don’t make extra money from preinstalling crapware that tracks you?
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by linmob 5y ago
It’s less bleak than one might think: For tracing, at least Sailfish OS has an app called Contrac [1]. I looked into porting it over to other PinePhone OS, but with the CRUST and deep sleep, it would not really be useful there anyway (as it
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by linmob 5y ago
From reading OP I it sounds more like mobile-config-firefox is not installed and thus Firefox does not work properly.
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by linmob 5y ago
I have two PinePhones and a Librem 5. I mostly use my 3GB/32GB postmarketOS CE PinePhone, running Arch Linux ARM, as I do blog [0] and try to maintain an app list [1] and testing new features or apps on Arch is just way easier, than on
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by linmob 5y ago
Um, they are maintaining a distro. It’s called PureOS [0]. [0]: https://www.pureos.net
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by linmob 5y ago
I don't think so, but I really should try running that on my PinePhone. Chatting might work, video chat would certainly require tons of tinkering with a slow Electron app.
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by linmob 5y ago
Newer GPU = different SoC -> solving many solved problems once again. Likely candidate SoC for a "PinePhone 2" is the RockChip RK3566, but I would not expect that before 2023 (if not later).
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by linmob 5y ago
> Also, a large part of using a smart phone is the apps. Without apps the phone is just really a phone. I attempt to list them all at https://linmobapps.frama.io .
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by linmob 5y ago
Signal apps are an issue, for sure. Signal desktop can run, but it's not fun, because it's not responsive at all. Currently, the best alternative available imho is Axolotl, which is what I use.[0] [0] https://github.com
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by linmob 5y ago
Once one (most likely GloDroid) will be closer to “this is now a working Android phone” I expect others to follow.
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by linmob 5y ago
“Under-resourced” is a good way to put it. There’s often a lack of UX design and thus a lack of polish – since there’s often no money to be made, there’s little to no incentive to bring it up from “works for me” to “works for everybody seam
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by linmob 5y ago
I had a FreeRunner back in the day and have had a PinePhone for over a year now, and it has gotten me back to blogging [0] and creating videos after years of not doing that. The hardware choices are in so far better, as this looks like a no
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by linmob 5y ago
I am not aware of any Replicant build for the PinePhone, otherwise I would have had to try it out and make a video about it [0]. GloDroid [1] has incomplete support for the PinePhone (no support for anything the EG25-G does), that‘s all in
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by linmob 5y ago
I have been writing and doing a number of videos about the PinePhone on https://linmob.net . There is not one interface, there are many. I personally like Purism's Phosh the best, as Plasma Mobile has had more problems for m
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by linmob 5y ago
Aside from the generic documentation on Flathub I am not aware of any. That said, on recent Manjaro Plasma Mobile Betas it was simply enabled by default.
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by linmob 5y ago
Regarding the articles complaint about not being able to use Flatpak on Manjaro Plasma Mobile: You totally can, it works with Discover, it's just not enabled by default.
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by linmob 5y ago
There are a few Snapdragon 845 phones (PocoPhone F1, OnePlus 6(T) that are getting closer and to fully working with postmarketOS and/or Mobian. Maybe that’s something to look out for, currently IIRC the OnePlus 6 is the closest.
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by linmob 5y ago
There are a few more than just these: https://linmobapps.frama.io
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by linmob 5y ago
I have heard rumors that something on a level of a mid-range Android phone would already be on sale, but the component shortage has introduced delays.
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by linmob 5y ago
I don’t think Anbox is not so much about man power. It’s for proprietary services or services that don’t have a decent Linux app. I recall the early days of Android very well [0], it had a similar lack of apps (then compared to Symbian and
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by linmob 5y ago
It‘s early days and phone cameras are 90 percent software. The PinePhone shows that with decent software even a potatocam can produce okay-ish photos, so I would not judge these early pictures too harshly.

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